Photography, Cinema, Memory: The Crystal Image of Time

Sutton, Damian

ISBN 10: 0816647399 / ISBN 13: 9780816647392

Published by Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2009

About this Item

In a soft cover with blue and black titles to spine and front. 269 pp. with a number of black and white photographs.

The book is in very good condition. There is very minor shelf-wear to the extremities of the cover. The binding is tight and the pages clean and unmarked.

Seller Inventory # 915491

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Photography, Cinema, Memory: The Crystal Image of Time
• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816647399
• ISBN 13: 9780816647392
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Dimensions: 152.4W x 228.6H x 22.86D millimeters 152.4 millimeters width by 228.6 millimeters height by 22.86 millimeters depth
• Weight: 476 grams

About this title

Synopsis

A philosophical investigation into the differing sensations of time in cinema and photography

Cinema and photography are both intimately associated with time—cinema with time in passing, the photograph with the lost moment. In Photography, Cinema, Memory, Damian Sutton explores time in both media to present a radical new understanding of the photographic image as always coming into being.

Drawing on Gilles Deleuze’s concept of the crystal image to move beyond the tropes of immobility, stasis, and death, Sutton’s analysis reveals the open-endedness of time expressed in the photograph, either as a potential for an abundant future or as a depth of meandering remembrance. He presents an innovative taxonomy of time in the photograph, considering particular representations of time in the work of Nan Goldin, Eugène Atget, Andy Warhol, and others. He contrasts this taxonomy with representations of time in cinema since 1895, offering fresh readings of the films of the Lumière brothers and Mitchell & Kenyon, as well as more recent works, including Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Amélie, and A Matter of Life and Death.

Throughout this work, Sutton connects and grounds cinema and photography as starting points to comprehend how we come to terms, ultimately, with time itself as pure, immanent change.

About the Author

Damian Sutton is a lecturer of historical and critical studies at the Glasgow School of Art.